Dismantling Power Structures All Year, Not Just on International Women’s Day

To mark International Women’s Day, we were delighted to welcome
Pamela Jones to the podcast. EW Group Client Solutions Manager,
Nana Umoh, and Pamela discuss the significance of the day and how
organisations can better support women in the workplace to excel
rather than just survive. 


Rather than just a day’s focus, Pamela stresses the need for
gender equality to be an ongoing conversation, focussed on
transformation change which tackles issues such as how women are
positioned in the workplace, what their contributions stand for,
and how they are recognised.

Pamela comments: “More work is needed around really speaking to
power structures. How do we start engaging with organisational
power structures to bring this parity to women? I think there
needs to be more than just a policy. A lot of the time I speak to
CEOs and Managers and they say, ‘we have a policy for that’.
Whilst policies are useful, they are redundant unless put into
practice and mobilised effectively.”

Nana and Pamela also speak about the work needed to increase the
representation of women in the workplace at all levels, and the
additional challenges faced by women from under-represented
groups. 

Pamela Jones is an equality and diversity specialist, executive
coach, public speaker and mentor who has held multiple leadership
roles within financial services in the UK and internationally.
She also sits on EW Group’s parent company’s (eQS) Board as a
Non-Executive Director.

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